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Dr Shelley Wickham is the Professor Harry Messel Research Fellow and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Chemistry and the School of Physics at the University of Sydney.

She earned both her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in the School of Physics at the University of Sydney, and her PhD in Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Oxford, UK. She then moved to a postdoctoral fellow position at Harvard Medical School, USA, based
in the Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.

Dr Wickham has research interests in the self-assembly of matter on the nanoscale, and in particular in the design and assembly of programmable nanostructures out of DNA, with applications in cell biology, materials science and nanomedicine. Following the completion of her Professor Harry Messel Research Fellowship, Dr Wickham will continue as a Lecturer in Physics and Chemistry beginning in 2019.